New family of chips is Marvell's first rendition of the XScale processor it acquired from Intel
Marvell Technology Group launched a family of chips Wednesday that could speed Web browsing on cell phones, marking the company's first rendition of the XScale processor it acquired from Intel.
The PXA 300, PXA 310, and PXA 320 chips, code-named "Monahans," combine enough horsepower to handle multimedia and mobile Web browsing while remaining efficient enough to preserve long battery life, said Gary Forni, the director of platform enabling for Marvell's cellular and handheld business group, in Santa Clara, California.
The new product could help Marvell claim a larger share of the hardware used in mobile handsets, smartphones, GPS (global positioning system) navigation units and other consumer electronics. The company already sells chips for Hewlett-Packard PDAs (personal digital assistants) and cell phones from Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung Electronics.